then also if you re going to send people to war and break them then we re going fix them when they come home. that s what i ve always been about and that s what being a democrat is truly about. that s the way i m going stay. the line that jumped out the me the first time we heard you speak is where you said i saw kids in backyards of west virginia that were worst off than kids i saw in average. what did you mean by that? in iraq and afghanistan a village will raise the child. that s a fact. in america today due to the opioid epidemic, you know, we have mom and dad completely out of the picture. we re talking about they are either dead from overdo, they are in jail or they are just not there because they are addicted. grandma and grandpa are trying to raise the children on social security. already cut their meds in half. i can take you five minutes from where i live and show you children who have it worse. it s one of those things where you retire from the military and you come home
spans the globe, reshaped politic, the advertising business and daily life. but works in ways we re still coming to grips with and which they are still coming to grips with. this is a company that knew there were goings on with misinformation as early as 2016 but didn t even tell their own board or public what they knew until the fall of 2017 when the damage was already done. back then facebook hadn t even had any policy internally on what to do if they found this kind of thing. it shows how they transparent r should have been communicated up the chain? so what they found were some early signs that there were russian people or russian agents that were using accounts to try to get into theccers and leaders. and it progressed from there. there were later signs that facebook accounts were being used to spread hacked information of the democratic party and from there it went on to disinformation and trolls and
research. look, what they ve said they accused us of having things wrong in the story. they did not identify anything in the story that s wrong so far. they are under a lot of flack. there s a lot of outrage for people who work for george sore jobs for example, who are outraged george soros was used to try to discredit this story. how sleazy is it that facebook, one of the top corporations in america, is doing what the sleaziest republicans did regarding the caravan trying to pin a conspiracy theory on george soros. and at the same time trashing apple, trashing google on right-wing sites. this is as sleazy as it gets. again, i just wonder if zuckerberg is not going to do
extension our democracy. who survives that? joe, it is a really i mean the allegations of nick and the team found here are damning. but this is a complicated question because mark zuckerberg controls 60% of the voting shares of facebook. one of the best examples of how founders are controlling their companies these days, everyone seems to think he s going to stay. nick, my question to you is that still the case? today do you think that s still the case? it s very hard for that not to be the case because of his control of the company. what do you think will be the fallout here in terms of running the company? it s a great question. he picked sheryl sandberg to manage the outside world, keep the government off their backs and make money. facebook has done those things pretty well. for a long time. the profit hit a record this year. here s the real issue. the same machine they built that makes them so much money which is having all this data about you and to know everything abou
forward with that information it reportedly sought to deflect blame and mask the extent of the problem. while zuckerberg apologized in public, facebook s chief operating officer allegedly was on a different mission, combat the company s private foes in private. the social networking site hired republican opposition research firm to depict george soros as the force behind a broad anti-facebook movement and published stories praysing facebook while criticizing google and apple on a conservative news site. let s bring in the political writer for new york times nicholas co nicholas. nick, for you what s at the center of this. this is a big takeaway and a big look into a business that